...Christopher Connery In an era of generalized depoliticization in China, what is the nature of critical practice, and what constraints does it face? Many on the Chinese left have seen in the history and practice of the Chinese Revolution, and in the stated values of the Chinese Communist Party, a...

... monolithic official discourse. While the party-state continues to closely supervise the public sphere, the introduction of markets, the relative diversification of media producers, and the increasing volume of media introduce a degree of dynamism and unpredictability. Seeing important change but recognizing...

...-party system. While misinformation is merely a mistake in reportage that is typically retracted in the next day’s news or a distortion of the truth, conscious (spin) or unconscious, for particular ends, such as the Bush administration’s fiction of “weapons of mass destruction,” Disinformation is a deep...

... was introduced, but the regime was interrupted by military takeovers in 1960, 1971, 1980, and finally in 1997. This pattern began to change after the elections of 2002, which saw the victory of the AKP (Justice and Development Party). The AKP emerged from the Islamist political movements of the 1970s...

...Yin Wang By way of four literary works by Taiwanese writer Lai Xiangyin, this essay examines the contrasting conditions for native Taiwanese of the interwar and postwar generations to view and imagine “China” after 1945 and across four decades of dictatorial rule by the Chinese Nationalist Party on...

... rewriting of the history of the Anti-Rightist Campaign, an important precursor of the Cultural Revolution. The “revolutionary” intellectual of the 1940s, courted and then spurned by the party, was later refigured as the “patriotic” intellectual of the 1970s and 1980s, whose allegiance was to the ancestral...

... threatened to destroy the institutional foundation of the party-state. Seeking to remedy the virtual absence of a historically grounded understanding of the legacy of Chinese socialism in the contemporary discussions of “capitalism with Chinese characteristics,” this essay argues that how we understand...

...Christopher Connery Chongqing, a conurbation with province status about the size of Austria, was, between 2007 and 2012, under the leadership of Party Secretary Bo Xilai, the site of a number of political practices—in housing, law enforcement, industrial development, public “red culture,” and...

...) exemplifies the ways in which a prime-time TV serial in twenty-first-century China is a politically, socially, and commercially significant enterprise. Since the 1980s, prime-time serials have emerged as a distinctly successful medium with and through which the Chinese party-state exercises ideological...

...Tani Barlow This article argues that the polymath Marxist philosopher and Communist Party apparatchik Qu Qiubai, who established sociology in the Chinese Marxist tradition by organizing the Sociology Department at Shanghai University in 1930, proposed that “society” was the sine qua non of human...

... Translation Bureau of the Communist Party of China, who has written extensively on questions of economics and philosophy. The dialogue was initiated at the invitation of Professor Li when Professor Arif Dirlik of the Chinese University of Hong Kong was a visiting scholar with the Contemporary Marxism...

... repressive collaborationist regime of Wang Jingwei (1939–1945). The film's plot takes off directly from this context, which in turn informs Ang Lee's adaptation. The competing “structures of domination” come from two rivaling regimes of the Guomindang (Nationalist Party) as well as the Japanese military...

... Communists (and on this I speak from
experience). It is important to know which party they joined, as there are
national variations among the parties. But it is often more useful to know
when they joined, as there are changes in mood and policy that are a tem-
poral affect common to all of the...

... concerned, it is useful to judge how far China has traveled
by placing present-­day commitments against that moment in the past when
the Communist Party embarked upon the path captured by the slogan of
“socialism with Chinese characteristics,” at least as that moment appeared
to this author at the...

... fear switched sides.
The second component is the radical left, which comes from the
communist tradition. The young are not anticommunist, but they do not
want the framework of a party with chiefs and orders. They do not have bad
relations with the communists. Absolutely...

... insti-
tutions, parties, and associations that extraordinary social forces enter a
revolutionary struggle—that is to say, the sociohistorical actions that chal-
lenge an established political order—set out to conduct the most radical
change in social relations possible by either destroying the...